This training is a must if you want to get deeper insights into the mind of a gang member. Whilst I don’t subscribe to the title gang those presenting the sessions represent some of UK best informed, most connected and perhaps most knowledgable and experienced when it comes to the minds and attitudes of young people. Don’t miss this..

BPACT VOYAGE and the wonderful Alumni will be hosting a debate at the National Black Police Associations 20th anniversary event to be held on the 29th and 31st October 2014. We want to start a debate in advance of this event on hashtag #overpolicedandunderprotected . We welcome your comments, thoughts and views on our social media platforms @voyageybpa99 and www.facebook.com/VoyageYouth so get involved and join in the debate now.

American Police are at it again and it reminded me to post this wonderful quote from Martin Luther King “The question now is whether America is prepared to do something massively…about the great problem we face in the area of race.” Read this and comment.

#BlackPoliceArchive – The National Black Police Association (NBPA) attaches huge significance to the discovery of John Kents “aka Black Kent” career, which it says is totally unexpected.

“The significance is that while we had people of colour joining that far back, it took until 2003 before we had the first black chief constable [Kent’s Mike Fuller],” said David McFarlane, the then NBPA’s national co-ordinator.

“A lot of people are under the misapprehension that black people only arrived here during the Windrush years [1940s and 1950s], or when the Asians came in the 1970s, but people of colour have been in this country for centuries.

We are absolutely incensed by the number of senseless killings of young life in London. This is going to be a major topic at our up and coming YBPA summit on the 19th July 2014 in Old Street. Like our new facebook.com/voyage.ybpa and twitter @voyageybpa99 and of course check out the stats on the Citizen Report.

Welcome to Citizens Report; we developed this site to demonstrate how citizens can create their own community intelligence and instantly alert others about crime and other harmful issues in their neighbourhoods. Since developing CitizensReportUK the software has been ported to Africa, South America and West Indies, and the UK Police have finally developed their own online and mobile crime reporting. This last development means we will be closing down our own public crime reporting portal and we will only maintain our more serous violent crime mapping elements, including:

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BPACT VOYAGE is now recruiting Horizons partners to drive in our funded programmes into Young Offending Services, Teams and Young Offender institutions. Our programme is designed to build resilience and leadership to assist those involved in the criminal justice system to resist the temptations to stay involved in crime.

If you would like to know more about the programme please contact the office on 02072508322

Y.Stop is a new stop and search project created by young people for young people. It is coordinated by Release in collaboration with a large number of charities, lawyers, NGOs and educators. The project aims to give you the skills to handle stop and search and your interactions with the police, as well as provide tools for advice, empowerment and reporting police behaviour. Some more information about the project is here;

Y.Stop will be launching next month and will eventually have a whole series of advocacy tools such as an app, film and alternative complaints process especially aimed at young people. We are also launching a training programme and next week are running a train-the-trainers session session to create a new group of peer trainers as part of it. Peer trainers will play a hugely important role in Y.Stop, equipping young people with practical skills, confidence and knowledge to successfully handle stop and search in a fun and practical way.

If you are interested in becoming a Y.Stop trainer, Fully Focused will be delivering a train-the-trainers session for StopWatch and Y.Stop youth partners at 3 – 4.30pm on Tuesday 6 May at;

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empower |emˈpou(-ə)r|

verb [ with obj. and infinitive ]
give (someone) the authority or power to do something:
[ with obj. ] make (someone) stronger and more confident, esp. in controlling their life and claiming their rights.